On This Day…

2nd December 2019

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1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte has crowned Emperor of France in Paris.1823 – President James Monroe declares his “Monroe Doctrine”, a US foreign policy regarding Latin America.1845 – Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.1859 – Abolitionist John Brown was hanged following a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.1929 – First skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien.1942 – Scientists led by Enrico Fermi conducted the world’s first controlled self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, at the University of Chicago.1954 – The U.S. Senate voted to censure Senator Joseph R. McCarthy for his conduct in the investigation of communism in the United States.1971 – The United Arab Emirates was formed by the union of six small emirates on the Arabian Peninsula; a seventh emirate joined in February 1972.1976 – Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.1982 – William C. DeVries implanted the first permanent artificial heart in Barney Clark; the aluminum and plastic device was called the Jarvik-7.1993 – Colombian criminal Pablo Escobar—who, as head of the Medellín cartel, was arguably the world’s most powerful drug trafficker in the 1980s and early ’90s—was killed during a shoot-out with authorities.

Sport: 1907 – Association of Football Players’ and Trainers’ Union (English Professional Football Players’ Association) is formed by Charlie Roberts and Billy Meredith in Manchester, England.